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G. w. PARDBB & B. MGALBESB. WINDUW GUARD No. 570,713.V

Patented Nov. 3, 1896.

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GEORGE XV. PARDEE AND BERNARD MCALEESE, OF HOBOKEN, NEWT JERSEY.

WINDOW-GUARD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 570,713, dated November 3, 18,96.

' Application filed August 2l, 1896. Serial No. 603,459. (No model.) 4

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Be it known that we, GEORGE W. PARDEE and BERNARD McALEEsE, citizens of the United States, residing at Hoboken, in the county of Hudson and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Improvement in lVindow-Guards, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to a folding windowguard adapted to be insertedin a windowframe and to be received between the stopbeads of said frame, the object of said guard being to prevent a person accidentally falling outof a'window, especially in tenementhouses where there are clothes-lines from one building to another on which clothes are hung to dry. The guard is also useful to prevent children accidentally falling out of the window.

In carrying out our invention we provide top and bottom parallel bars that are jointed about centrally and which, when in place in the window-frame, occupy a horizontal position. Between these bars there are intermediate vertical bars, preferably placed at equal distances apart and preferably adjustable -to accommodate slight variations in the re quired height that it is desired the guard should occupy.

The upper or top bar is provided with side bars to strengthen the joint and prevent the top bar being weak transversely, because there is considerable strain upon this top bar, or, in other words, pressure from the inside as one leans over the bar. This windowguard is adapted to fold up vertically or to fold horizontally with the parts parallel.

In the drawings, Figure l represents a vertical sect-ion of the edge parts vof a windowframe and an'elevation of our improvement. Fig. 2 is a sectional plan of the same. Fig. 3 represents the parts of the window-guard as folded up vertically, the same being shown across the sheet for convenience; and Fig. 4 represents, by a view in smaller size, the window-guard as folded up horizontally with the top and bottom bars parallel.

The top bar is composed of the members a a and the bottom bar of the members h b. 5o rlhese are connected by the hinges c c', which are upon similarsurfaces of said bars. Upon opposite sides of the member c are shown Between the top and bottom bars are the intermediate vertical bars shown and pivotally connected at l and 2 'to the top and bottom bars, and each preferably composed of two members ff', the members f having longitudinal mortises near their free ends and the members f having studs g project' ing through said mortises, that are threaded for clamping nuts or devices of any desired character that provide for rigidly connecting the two members together. It will thus be seen that said intermediate bars are adjustable vertically, so as 'to bring the top and bottom bars nearer together or to extend them farther apart, so as to bring the guard higher up in t-he window-frame.

The window-guard, when the turn-button e is brought in line with the top bar, can be folded by a vertical movement upon the hinges c c', that bring the members of the top bar toward each other and the members of the bottom bar toward each other, thus bringing theintermediate bars in pairs close to and parallel with each other, as shown in Fig. 3, or, if desired, and as shown in Fig. 4, and without the operation of the hinges the top and bottom bars can be brought parallel to each other, or, in other words, the windowguard folded horizontally.

We claim as our invention- 1. As a new article of manufacture, a window-guard consisting of top and. bottom bars hinged together centrally or nearly so, and bars at each side of the joint to strengthen the same laterally, and vertical bars pivotally connected to the top and bottom bars, substan tially as' specified.

2. As a new article of manufact ure, the window-guard consisting of the members d d forming the top bar and hinged together, the members b Z2 forming the bottom bar and hinged together and parallel Yto the members forming the top bar, the side bars CZ d' for strengthening the top bar, the turn-button e for looking the same in position, and the intermediate Vertical bars pivotally connected to the top and bottom bars, substantially as set forth.

3. As a new article of manufacture, the windm T-guard eonsistn g of the members ct a forming the top bar and hinged together, the members b b forming the bottom bar and hinged together and parallel to the members forming the top bar, the `side bars d CZ for strengthening the top bar, the turn-button e for locking the same in position, and the intermediate Vertical bars pivotally connected to the top `and bottom bars and eaeh oomposed of the members ff', the one member GEO. W. PARDEE. s BERNARD MCALEESE. Witnesses:

GEO. T. PINCKNEY, E. E. POHL. 

